Nowness Quotes

#1. Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

B. Alan Wallace

#4. The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.

Chogyam Trungpa

#5. Nowness is the sense that we are attuned to what is happening. The past is fiction and the future is a dream, and we are just living on the edge of a razor blade.

Chogyam Trungpa

#6. The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.

Pema Chodron

#7. Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

#8. If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it.

Rajneesh

#9. You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

Ram Dass

#10. Noun leaders must have titles and positions. Verb leaders lead by example. Noun leaders say "listen to me" and "Obey me." Verb leaders say: :Follow me" and "Let me serve you." A movement will not survive under leaders that demand titles and positions.

Ralph W. Neighbour Jr.

#11. If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.

Demi Lovato

#12. It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.)

Christopher Moore

#13. Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity.

Daniel Dennett

#14. That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Jami Gertz

#15. Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#16. The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.

Henry B. Eyring

#17. This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.

Richard Bunning

#18. Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive.

Dave Pelzer

#19. I firmly believe that every boy needs his mom to love him and every girl needs her dad to pay attention to her.

Amy Poehler